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2 Kings 2:23-24: A story about what happens when you make fun of bald dudes

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Marx Financial Freedom Steps

  1. Buy a gun and ammo
  2. Revolt against your oppressors
  3. Don't profit because profit is bad
BaldProphet ,
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The solution is to stop bailing out mismanaged companies. Crony capitalism/corporate socialism are scams.

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I wouldn't have even gone to college if I didn't have access to a privately subsidized university. That said, $40k of debt for four years of education doesn't actually seem so bad, considering living expenses. Being able to live on $10k a year (or less) is impressive.

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You're describing the median, not the average.

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Social good more than for economic reasons, since we know definitively that more education isn't required to do work that currently is high-paying.

FTC Non-compete rule published in Federal Register ( www.govinfo.gov )

This goes into effect September 4, 2024. Employers with existing non-compete agreements must post the notice on page 163 (38504). After that date you may accept a job offer from anybody, including a direct competitor, and not worry about violating any non-compete agreement.

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Now there is one fewer reason to work in California if you're in the tech industry.

BaldProphet ,
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It's disappointing that the effects of discrimination against childless men are downplayed in the article, which focuses on discrimination against mothers.

BaldProphet ,
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My jaw dropped when I heard this self-identified business owner say that suppressing wages is a bad thing.

We need more business owners like him.

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I don't know any men who would choose a career-focused woman over a family-focused one. I don't think this is as much ESH as you make it out to be.

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Nice to meet you, Mare. 🙂

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You’re just discounting the entire portion of people who don’t want families.

No, I'm simply saying I don't know any men like that personally. I know they exist, of course. It's just that in my circle of influence I only know family-focused men. My whole point was that such men aren't necessarily a rarity, but now I'm starting to think that was the point all along.

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Forget about making a fortune, I just want to be able to afford to move out of my parents' house.

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Well, of course. Conservatism (and authoritarianism) at least pays lip service to addressing their concerns. From their perspective, the Left have ignored and devalued them for years.

When a man is disadvantaged but is constantly told he is the beneficiary of the patriarchal system, he feels dismissed and unsupported, and his actual needs aren't met.

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My last job they really didn't like us doing nothing during down time, they really wanted us to be sweeping the floor or some other busy-work. There was a lot of work to be done like that, so it got boring, fast.

Now I have a job with tons of downtime and my boss is explicitly fine with us reading books, playing video games, watching Netflix, etc. as long as we are responsive when customers come in. It's a great gig (although low-paying), especially for a college student.

Now if I get bored it's my own fault.

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From what I've seen unpaid internships aren't nearly as common as they used to be, but are still concentrated in certain white-collar fields such as law and finance.

I don't think I saw a single unpaid internship when I was searching for my senior internship in college.

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Salaried workers have no specific hours. Their employers own them.

EDIT: Meaning to say that they aren't paid for hours worked, so there is nothing to lose and everything to gain from a money perspective for employers to get them to work long hours and call whenever.

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"Ops" means "Operations" and is far from technobabble. Ops could be everything from maintenance and security personnel to IT workers who keep business-critical systems running.

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It depends on your agreement with your employer. Unless your employment contract specifically states hours for you to work during, there is no limit on when your boss can expect you to reply to your emails.

Of course, hourly non-salaried workers get paid by the hour, even though some hourly workers can still be expected to work ridiculous hours by their employers.

'Boys are disappearing' from mental health care, as signs of depression and anxiety go undetected ( www.nbcnews.com )

Research found while antidepressant prescriptions have risen dramatically in the US for teenage girls and women in their 20s, the rate of such prescriptions for young men “declined abruptly during March 2020 and did not recover.”

BaldProphet ,
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Medi-Cal is the state of California's Medicaid implementation. It is only available to residents of California and even within the state, its usefulness varies widely.

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I’m sure there are differences, but I don’t know the extent of the differences. I would like to think that they’re minor, since it’s a federally funded program, but who knows.

Unfortunately, you are wrong in this case. Medicaid coverage and funding vary significantly between states, as can be seen here: https://www.medicaid.gov/state-overviews/index.html

Coverage has improved in most states since 2020, but few states try to implement Medicaid as comprehensively as California, and several implement it as minimally as possible without violating federal law.

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Yeah, Medi-Cal has a ton of problems (like paying healthcare providers way less than they earn from every other insurance plan) and its county-by-county administration is a bit wonky, but it has been a boon to me as well.

BaldProphet ,
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Instructions unclear, what should I do with this bloody rock?

BaldProphet ,
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Seems like this sort of anti-safety corporate culture is behind the majority of industrial accidents.

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I had to do a write-up on the Deepwater Horizon disaster for my organizational leadership class a couple weeks ago. Same thing, a corporate culture that downplayed safety and emphasized profit led to poor maintenance, woefully inadequate equipment inspections, and choosing the worst options because they were cheaper.

It's past time for these corps to learn.

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I have a problem with the inherent hypocrisy in this article. The author presents the issue of her sons "sliding to the right" as a problem in itself, rather than explaining why she thinks it is a problem.

If you, as a parent, see a shift in your child's belief system or political preferences as a problem, you need to do some introspection and be able to fully articulate why it's a problem other than "I don't like it."

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You reduced "sliding to the right" to "becoming a racist, sexist, misogynist" and completely missed the point. Rather than dictating to our kids what they should believe, we should teach them principles that will allow them the best chance of choosing correctly for themselves.

Honestly, attitudes like yours are a huge contributor to the rightward shift of young men.

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You've become radicalized, friend: Your extremist rhetoric makes that clear. I hope you can find your way out.

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What is extreme about your talking points is the implicit assumption that a person taking any position right of center is a "racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe, climate denialist, book burner, and christian nationalist". Spewing bigoted and divisive rhetoric like this alienates even centrists like myself. It's a hateful worldview that could easily lead to violence. I hope you find the help you need.

BaldProphet ,
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I think men in general need to stop smelling their own farts and take a long, hard, and uncomfortable look in the mirror.

Figure out who exactly it is you want to be. What traits does this version of yourself have? Chances are, ‘intolerant shit sack’ aren’t the words we want to describe ourselves with.

I think this mentality is why so many men have a problem with feminism. When you start your conversation with "you're the problem", you're going to alienate the group you're attempting to reach out to. Men have real problems that deserve to be noticed and recognized, and not all of them are a result of patriarchal culture. Telling them that they're to blame for their problems because they're "intolerant shit sacks" is just going to convince them that the problem is feminism.

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It's past time for commute time to be paid for by our employers. If they want to save money on paying for people's commutes, they should pay us enough to live closer to our workplaces, or allow us to work from home.

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8-6 isn't too bad.

Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden, Blinken Sued for Backing Israel’s War on Gaza ( www.democracynow.org )

The Biden administration is on trial in the United States for failure to prevent the “unfolding genocide” in Gaza. On Friday, lawyers for the Biden administration argued the court lacks the proper jurisdiction to decide the case, while Palestinians and Americans testified about atrocities committed by Israel with American...

BaldProphet ,
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Americans had better hope the courts rule in favor of the Biden administration. A ruling for the plaintiffs would be one of the biggest judicial power grabs in American history and trigger a constitutional crisis.

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Hmm. I couldn't read the full article because of a paywall, but from what I understand, the constitutionality of the NLRB was upheld by the Supreme Court in NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. 301 U.S. 1 (1937). I'm not sure there is any foundation to contemporary claims that the NLRB is unconstitutional.

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They'll have to find some different basis for suing, just like the Dobbs case. The Supreme Court today is most certainly less friendly toward the idea of the NLRB than the Supreme Court of 1937.

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Well, this is completely unsurprising and what many people have been saying for decades.

Just a side note, the whole "men's brains don't mature until they're 25" thing is a myth.

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From what I've read, both men's and women's brains reach maturity sometime in their 30s.

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They're shitty cars, anyway.

The end of workplace loyalty: Why work feels so broken right now — and how it can be repaired ( www.businessinsider.com )

In the two years I've been writing about Americans' changing relationship to work, there's one theme that's come up over and over again: loyalty. Whether my stories are about quiet quitting, or job-hopping, or leveraging a job offer from a competitor to force your boss to give you a raise, readers seem to divide into two groups....

BaldProphet OP ,
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Yes, at some point the goal should be to simply "keep going" rather than to always "keep going up".

BaldProphet OP ,
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Your parents got more than we ever will. We'll work until we're physically broken and will be lucky to die in a cardboard box, let alone receive a pin to barter for a crust of bread with.

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We need to put our money into ethical, sustainability-focused activist funds that can force the public corps' to institute reforms.

BaldProphet ,
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$150 an hour isn't as much as you think. When I did tech consulting I charged $100 an hour and felt like I was exploiting myself.

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Our homeless exist on purpose, it wouldn’t be that expensive to provide minimal shelter.

This is literally the truth. The state of California spent billions on serving the homeless over the past several years, and studies found that it would have been cheaper to simply pay their rent. At market rates.

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It's ironic because the cost of labor would be cheaper if the economic conditions that cause homelessness didn't exist. I wouldn't have to demand a six-digit salary if I could maintain my standard of living on five digits.

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Haha 1) I don't care, 2) I'm not even close to the top 2%. I'm a broke college student who would be skipping meals if it weren't for the SAVE plan. I ended that business because $100/hr didn't leave enough for me to live on after covering my business expenses, so it wasn't worth my time (which it shared with classes and an internship). For a consulting fee in a Western country, $150/hr is pretty much par and hardly excessive.

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I think poverty wages extend above 100k in a few Bay Area cities, such as San Francisco.

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Yeah, I was talking about $150/hr, not $300k per year. For a consultant to take home that much, they would have to charge a lot more than $150/hr.

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